Included in Parr & Badger, The Photobook: A History, Vol. II Containing some of Renger-Patzsch's finest work, this company photobook was published to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the FA Lange company. Divided into a sort of taxonomy--chapters are titled the land, the people, the work--that places this work firmly in the New Objectivist camp, this book is in keeping with Renger-Patzsch's studies of industrial towns--subjects that few photographers had considered worthy of attention. Renger-Patzsch’s cool, detached, and uninflected style matched his subject matter: the bleak non-places at the edge of the industrial landscape. "His visual strategy employed a romantic faith in technical rationality, productivity, and efficiency of means. His photographs capture an aesthetic of machine production seeking to blur the distinction between nature and technology."--reference, Ali Malik The Use and Abuse of Photography in Architecture.